ORIGINAL PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH OF LILLIAN GISH
by Van Vechten, Carl:
Price: $1,250.00
- Bookseller: William Reese Company - Literature ABAA-ILAB
- Seller Inventory #: WRCLIT 59977
- Publisher: New York. 12 April 1937.
Book Description
New York. 12 April 1937.. Original borderless gelatin silver print, 35.5 x 23 cm (14 x 9 inches). Slight discoloration on verso, otherwise near fine. A fine portrait of the actress, dating from the late days of her performance as Ophelia in the Broadway revival of HAMLET, opposite John Gielgud. This large format print bears Van Vechten's ink studio stamp on the verso. The subject, date and negative number are also written on the verso in ink, in Van Vechten's hand. There are no portraits of Lillian Gish indexed in the Library of Congress Van Vechten collection. A print from another negative taken during the same session is included in EXTRAVAGANT CROWD CARL VAN VECHTEN'S PORTRAITS OF WOMEN (Yale, Beinecke Library, 2003). This sitting is not recorded in Kellner, and the image printed in PORTRAITS (1978) is from her 1947 sitting.
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